Tis the season when Hollywood starts to argue about the Oscars. But one thing just about everybody is agreed upon: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the most highly anticipated film of the year. It stars Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button, a man who ages backwards, and Cate Blanchett as Daisy, the woman he loves and who loves him. The lavish epic, with a running time of just under three hours, is film-making on a grand scale, financed by two studios and costing north of $150m.

Its the third collaboration between the controversial director David Fincher and Pitt, who also starred in Se7en and Fight Club. The film, which covers a span of more than 80 years and ends in the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, is very loosely based on a 1922 short story by F Scott Fitzgerald, which itself was inspired by a quote from Mark Twain: Life would be infinitely happier if only we could be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18.

Much of the anticipation comes from a carnival-attraction curiosity about seeing Hollywoods most beautiful actor aged to look both much older than his 44 years, and, more disconcertingly, much younger than the young man who first excited us 17 years ago in Thelma and Louise. The startling special effects are a marriage of old-fashioned make-up, modern prosthetics and ground-breaking computer-generated techniques that have never been used like this before.

During the film, which opens at the end of the first world war, Pitt ages by looking increasingly younger, starting his curious life as a baby with the physical characteristics — baldness, coarse skin, liver spots, cataracts, deafness and arthritis — of a very old man. He has all the deterioration, the infirmities, not of a newborn, but of a man well in his eighties on the way to his grave, says the doctor who delivers him.

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